THE — newsletter. A Critical, Social, Dramatic, Sporting, Political and General newspaper for ibe People. NKITHKR BY KEAlt, NOR BY FAVOR, BUT BY TRUTH ALONK. Peculiar Doctrine. It will he remembered that in a recent case the plaintiff asked a witness — a priest of the R.C. church — if it was allowable, accord - i itig to Catiiolic doctrine, for a ? man who had confessed to a ^ ? priest a ce tain sin, and had re ~ : v, ceived absolution for it, to after ? ' wards deny that he had committed such a sin. The answer was in the negative, and much opprobrium was heaped upon the questioner from all sides. Later a number of priests of the Roman church issued a public protest in which they declared : — (i.) 'That it is false and malicious to insinuate that Catholics, who confess their sins .... and receive ab solution, may afterwards, in a Court of Justice, swear they never committed these sins.' (2.) ' That it is vile and slanderous to insinu ate that whereas non-Christians I are to be belie...

ECHOES OF SPORT. ^ Hy Nunquam Dormio ) The compulsory retirement of the English bowlers, Roche (Australian), Quaife, the Lancashire man, Mold, and others, by the county captains on the 10th December, will not affect the latter very much, as his benefit last season realised £ZVUU. # xne nuc.«« manner in which leading English professionals are treated by their respective counties contrasts in a pro nounced manner with the shabby treatment received by such old-time Australian veterans as George Gilbert, E. Evans, Turner, Boyle, Hewitt, and others, unfortunately too numer ous to number. Seeing that nearly all the cricket associations of the States are in a prosperous condition, surely some energetic admirer of the good old game will successfully carry out a motion that a percentage of all inter-State matches should be de ducted for the purpose of establishing a cricketers' fund. If such a deserv ing fund were established many a veteran cri -keter, who might meet with misfortune in his o...

Characters in Parliament. ('Billy' Cummings.) Among the ' intellectual giants who sat in past parliaments were such men as ' Joe' Eckford, Hanly, Bennett, Schofield, and ' Billy' Cummings — and old hands know what famous men they were — how useful (on a pinch) to their leaders — to Robertson, Martin, Parkes or Cowper, as the case might be. I knew William of East Macquarie nnrfiriilo r*ltr ur/all T--T o c r\ l,tu XXV. u parli imentary paradox, if ever there was one — yet East Mac f]uarie had faith in him. Billy went cronk, however, on the ' Free selection' ticket, and there was hades to pay in consequence. Billy was a small squatter, with a kindly feeling towards the smaller man — the 'cockatoo.' It was natural that he should be, con sidering his up bringing, and the politics he imbibed in the land of butter-milk and spuds ; and people of the same kidney in the elector ate — eager to get a 'bit o' land o' their own' — saw that he had clean sold them by voting 'agin Free selection.' S...

The Pony Meetings. Entries. Nominations for the pony and galloway meetings at Kensington, llosebery Park, and Forest Lodge Clubs close this afternoon (Friday), with the respective secretary at 5 o'clock.

MOOREFIELD RACES. There was a first-class attendance at the Moorefield Races on Wednes day last, and the Randwick trainers, Payten and Fielder, landed five out of the six races on the programme, the former capturing three with Boonal, Equator, and Lord Rudolph, while Bother landed two for Fielder. Bother, who thus emulated the example of Ma Ma (who, by the way, died on Tuesday) and Doreen, easily U OlUtttCU XTJLCIUOOI ttllU IXUlUlilJUIl lor the Kogarah Stakes, and, a few hours afterwards, despite a 7 lb. penalty, beat Whirlpool, Sovereign and a big field for the Welter Handicap. After a long spell Mr. Dykes, of Cario and Goldfinder fame, landed another race with Bange, the daughter of Far Niente and Waiting Maid finishing in front of Lady Jewell, Edna and others for the Flying Handicap. She has incurred a 71b, penalty for the Sprinter's Handicap at Rosehill to morrow (Saturday), but has escaped one for the Don caster Handicap. Pay ten's Equator beat Lady Arling ton and a weak field ...

IN FRONT AND BEHIND. (By Faltnline Day .J The Ladder of Life is almost as gorgeous a spectacle as was the procession on Commonwealth Day. In the disembarkation scene the back cloth is up against the stage-wall and the big door therein, leading to the dock scene, is opened so that the audience may see the Lancers riding 4 ? ai ? p.. ? ? i. LlHYJirUS Llltiiil HUH I KjUSllUi GUgll streets, followed by the Dorsets and headed by a strong military band. Then the Gordon Highlanders, led by half-a-dozen pipers, follow oil' the troops already named by the same exit. If you want to see military display, the Lyceum is the place to go for it. it is also tne spot to smell gunpowder. For the Dorsets, Highlanders and Afridis bang away at one another at a distance of about feet until the whole auditorium is clouded by a sulphurous haze. Then the curtain is brifly dropped and rises again on a fire ground filled with dead while the triumphant Gordons wave their bonnets from the cloud capped peaks of ...

The Bush Editor. Of course the fallowing is a libel ou , a highly respectable order of in dividuals, and The Newsletter does not believe one solitary word of it, but it is just as well, perhaps, to kuo v 'what they say in England — it may help to take the conceit out of us. . »i ti ty i# if /v - - According to tne irau mail tfaxecte, one of the most interesting points about bush journalism in Australia is the romance and reverence which still clings to the editorial 4 we.' And, though everyone knows that ' we ' are a printer's devil, the editor's two daughters (who direct envelopes), and himself, still he is made to feel that his is a position which would turn the head of a weaker man. Yet his opinions are hardly known. Lealers have little influence on the reader in most countries, and the bush editor would probably not have his weekly loader at all if it was not the regular thing to do. An advan tage of his occupation is the con nection it has with the public-house, as he is readil...

COUNTRY OPINION. [In quoting from the Country Press we do bo Bolely that the opinions ex pressed may be fairly considered, not merely locally, but by the colony gene rally, and not because we necessarily agree with the articles quoted. — Ed N.] The Tariff Question — 'Hie issue of the elections will be one tariff versus two. However ambiguous Mr. Barton and his sup porters may be in their utterances, that fact stands out prominently. Revenue will be the first considera tion with both parties. The Ministry will supplement their revenue duties with protective duties. Should they be successful at the polls we shall have to pay the two imposts ; should Mr. Reid be successful we shall, escape with the one. Mr. Barton seems to be determined to undertake the task of reconciling the irreconcil able, but there is a reservation — re- venue comes first, and if a duty prove destructive of revenue it must go. This is a point that protectionists should note, and it is the one point in Mr. Barton's...

OUTSIDE THE BAY. I ho tide Hows in, and the tide ebbs out, And out in the west afar I see the lighthouse beacon llame, Like the Hash of the Evening Star, Oh, light, shine bright ! Strike left and right, 1' or ships have been lost in the dead of II The tide flows in, and the tide ebbs out, And sad are the days to me ; No storms can move and no winds disturb The depths of the deep, deep sea. .Hut all is (here As .serene and fair As the shells that toss in the dead man's hair. - The tide Hows in, and the tide ebbs out ; Til tlie churchyard lilies blow ; Hut the cruel sea- keeps hack that face, And will never let it go. The eyes I loved, The lips I kissed, In the bright days long ago. The tide Hows in, and the tide ebbs out - would you Know tne place my neari : In the sunshine gay, outside the bay, Would you leap with a sudden start t As the boat rocked over Lost friend and dead lover, Would your instant thrilling his grave discover '! The tide Hows in, and the tide ebbs out ; Ah, no ! ...

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TURFIANA GOSSIP. {By The Wizard. J DIARY FOR THE WEEK. Saturday. — Rosehill February Meet ing. Saturday. — Caulfield Races. Monday. — Forest Lodge Pony Races. Tuesday. — Rosebery Park Pony Races. Wednesday. — Sydney Turf Club tr i1 v rv i t-v \ meeting ^mrst uay.j Wednesday. — Kensington Pony Races. Coming after such a quartette of first-class three year olds as First King, Chester, Cap-a-Pie, and Wood lands, the Derby, and Leger horses of the following year, 1878, were in deed a rather poor lot. Oil the score of breeding no fault could be found with them, as the Derby winner, Wellington, was by Panic from the imported mare Frou Frou, and the Leger winner, Bosworth, by Mari byrnong from The Fawn, and thus a tull brother to Jtiichmond, begenhoe, Warwick, and Palmyra Vulcan, the winner of the Maribyrnong Plate, was by Yattendon from the imported Montana, and as the un crtain Lordship and the Kelpie colt, Warlock, were also amongst that season's three year olds, it is rather surprising...

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